"West of Edinburgh, in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, there is an outdoor installation by the artist Nathan Coley. Some six metres high, lit in neon, it proclaims:
‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’.
I first saw this sign after I made a shift in my career to focus on the developing area of digital advertising. As the shift of consumer habits to consuming media online was a seismic shift, this new area of advertising was slightly mysterious to most. It held big promises about everything in advertising changing. Many marketers indeed expected miracles and whilst the performance improvements it brought may have been miraculous over time, the process of getting there was no miracle. It involved a lot of change, false starts, time and resource investment before the shape of the advertising landscape changed and search engines and social media companies became the largest advertising vehicles in the world.'